"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love." -Dostoevsky The head of the most powerful country in the free world can attempt to espouse ‘alternative facts’ (and BTW if he ever took his shirt off in public a la Putin then the naked truth about his fitness would b

"With self discipline anything is possible." -Theodore Roosevelt Everyone finds himself in a situation where he (believes he) cant work out due to things like travel, injury, some event on the calendar, etc. During these times our mind tends to focus on what we ‘can’t’ do, eg “…I can’t work out because I hurt my knee.” Consider this important mental shift: When you find yourself thinking similar thoughts, write down a list of all the things you CAN do. Here are just a few – t

"The mind is everything.What you think you become.” Buddha The mind controls all. Our emotions. Our actions. Our muscles. Everything. It is the source of our greatest happiness and worse misery. Most people think our circumstances drive happiness or lack thereof. But it is actually our brains, or more specifically our minds (I will address the differences between the brain and the mind in another writing). Otherwise why would someone with a billion dollars and seemingly every

"The last three or four reps is what makes muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. Pain is pleasure.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger The most effective way to build muscle when weight training is to do what’s called ‘forced reps’, or a few more repetitions of a given exercise than you could do on your own. For exa